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Grouse Mountain

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Grouse Mountain

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Twelve hundred metres above the city, reached by cable car or by the Grouse Grind.

Duration

3 hrs – 5 hrs

Difficulty

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Best time

In the morning

Open

Every day

Entry price

To confirm

The mountain tops out at one thousand two hundred and fifty metres above the North Shore, and the cable car climbs it in eight minutes. At the top: a ski area in winter, lumberjack shows and two orphaned bears in a refuge in summer.

The Grouse Grind is the other way up: two thousand eight hundred and thirty steps over two point eight kilometres, for eight hundred metres of climb. Locals call it nature's stairmaster and time themselves on it. Going up is free, but coming down must be by cable car, which is charged.

Getting there

SeaBus to Lonsdale Quay, then bus 236 to the base station. About forty-five minutes from downtown.

What the price covers

cable car charged; climbing on foot by the Grouse Grind is free, the ride down is charged

What to bring

Rules on site

The Grouse Grind is one-way: walking down it is banned, and the cable car ticket down is paid even though the climb was free. The trail closes in winter and in snow.

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